| In each of us there is
a definition of who we think we are that changes like a chameleon from
minute to minute. Everything we perceive affects how we see this
self-definition, and everything we see is distorted by it also because
we look at the world in the context of this self.
This image shows how emotional projections and perceptions surround us like a multi-hued phantasm at all times. Since every living being projects their self-image out into the world there is outward as well as inward-bound light at all times. The senses supply a constant stream of perceptions which are distorted by memory and emotion from previous experiences which were similar. We relate with the exterior Universe through a cloud of emotion. This cloud also affects our meditation to a great degree in the early stages of our Sadhana. This is all a product of the Consciousness as it seeks to identify itself. |
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| To
transcend the emotional body we must learn the witness Consciousness. We
must recognize that emotion arises from within ourselves as a result of
reacting to the perceptions of the outer world. Such that it is not the
perceptions themselves which are the cause of emotion, but our REACTION
to those perceptions that is the cause the emotional phantasm.
Once we master this we can then go deeper. During meditation visions arise in the same way via the emotional body, because we are unaware of the effect that the Self who we call ourselves, has upon our idea of who is meditating. The mind does not exist until there is a reference to selfhood or I-ness; thoughts arise and the mind arises with them. Previously there was no mind at all When there is the idea that this is MY mind - or this is I - or this is an attribute or possession of MINE, there arises the Jiva or Ego and with it the emotional body, which is required to complete the organism of the being. The Emotional body is the individual Soul itself, but the Individual Soul is destined to be effected by every other individual that exists such that unless there is enlightenment, that Soul is nothing more than a victim of the strongest or stronger Self or Ego with which it comes into contact. There is no fun or freedom in this whatsoever. The Mind arises with the emotional body or Soul. Without the Soul there is no MIND.. without the Mind, there is no Soul either. That is why death arises when the body is no longer able to function correctly. The Emotional body does not exist because it is in a state of constant change, it is never stable. "NEVER" because the sum of all one's perceptions are what it is composed of. Thus the Mind arises with it and does not exist either; because the Mind is the Sum of current perceptions plus memory. The knowledge of the nature of anything along with its very existence is always experienced after Time has elapsed else the process of cognition could not have occurred. Such that the existence of a thing has come into being from the moment BEFORE the Time-Span in which that thing is perceived to have arrived. (before the TIME-Span arrived) This means the Space in which that thing exists has not arrived either because space-time in relation to objective reality are inseparable. This means that even as we see a thing it has already become something else, thus what it seems to be is not what it really is at all.. nor was it what it seemed to be before hand either. Thus there is no possibility of any stable thing in this Universe or any other either. This is the state in which the Emotional body or the Soul exists, subject to eternal torment. |
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